kongolongo

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by kongolongo 1y ago
Sure it might have an impact, but again the culpability of harm isn't on the consumer or advertiser. If people able to shop around for doctors to get any prescription then isn't that the problem, not the advertisement? It doesn&#x
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by kongolongo 1y ago
>Eventually, doctors that resist the pressure loose in the market, because they end up less liked and more criticized. And that is about it. Sounds like the incentives for doctors are misaligned. They shouldnt be subject to market demand
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by kongolongo 1y ago
>If these ads didn't do much the industry wouldn't be spending billions of dollars on them. Thats speculative. Companies spend exorbitant amounts of money on things they lose money on all the time. What's not speculative i
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by kongolongo 1y ago
Consumers can directly buy alcohol and tobacco, they cannot buy prescription drugs directly. If there is a problem isn't the primary culprit the prescriber?
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by kongolongo 1y ago
Why are prescription drug ads bad? Its not like consumers can prescribe or buy it for themselves. If there is a problem with overconsumption or misuse of prescription drugs isn't the blame on the medical professionals that prescribe th
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by kongolongo 2y ago
>Is there some good reason for this approach (need to get config updates into the wild as quickly as possible to combat zero-days or zero-hours?) or was this just a massive oversight? I'm curious of this too. Has there ever been a s
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by kongolongo 3y ago
I'd guess that's part of why they get thousands of applications per role?
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by kongolongo 3y ago
On Windows 11, task manager has a search function now!
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by kongolongo 3y ago
Here's a hypothesis: no positive number is evenly divisible by 3 trillion one. True up to 3 trillion then false at 3 trillion 1.
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by kongolongo 4y ago
I don't think that necessarily is a a bad thing. Just because someone can theoretically afford a mortgage payment now its pretty difficult to predict say 5+ years out whether or not that steady job will hold, especially if they're
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by kongolongo 4y ago
This analogy is interesting do you think there are some lawyers that consider themselves 10xlawyers haha. It make sense that a lot of it would be similar to documentation and meetings and various agile ceremonies and not just 2200 hours of
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by kongolongo 4y ago
The Harry Potter game was a little bit more complicated, I think PoGo was probably the simplest, at least at launch, I'm not sure what its like now, and other than being a super well-known IP is partially why it was successful IMO. I g
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by kongolongo 4y ago
You haven't shown its extra spending with just that one stat. Does $50 USD buy you the same things in the US as $50 USD in Venezuela?
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by kongolongo 4y ago
You can't judge how much of a burden healthcare costs are unless you account for how much of a person's income or some proxy of it healthcare is. Just saying that the US spends more per capita than other OECD countries doesn'
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by kongolongo 4y ago
There's a very consistent definition for what that means with plenty of papers and institutions that use use roughly the same definition. Here's one phrasing of it by the OECD[1]. Basically it's just income minus taxes, what
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by kongolongo 4y ago
Let's say the US spent 2x on healthcare as some country, but had 4x the disposable income, would this still be overspending or would it be more efficient given the amount relative to income? Healthcare spending in $ per capita doesn&#x
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by kongolongo 4y ago
Every time this stat is brought up I always think it doesn't convey the full context. Even though its in terms of per capita, it's still an absolute amount, I think a better data point to illustrate if the US was overspending comp
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by kongolongo 4y ago
The problem is you can't practically do that for many compounds either because of ethical reasons or because it would take far too long and would in the mean time impede progress significantly. Take plastics for example, they're a
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by kongolongo 4y ago
When those materials were the standard we also didn't have a lot of the medical and technological equipment today that arguably reduced both mortality and morbidity across large swaths of a much, much larger population. Plastics are us
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by kongolongo 4y ago
Are those the same as ghost kitchens?
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by kongolongo 4y ago
It really is not. No where in that article does it even hint at patents being a primary limiting factor for the availability of vaccines in developing countries. Of course not all companies are going to release their patents, but the fact t
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by kongolongo 4y ago
>As far as Covid-19 vaccines, there are actually many companies ready to go right to production if those patents are released to the public at this moment, and that would greatly increase supply, and that would benefit the whole world, i
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by kongolongo 4y ago
>manufacturing platforms (much of this is now outsourced to India, Mexico, etc. for drugs being sold in the USA) This completely trivializes and misses the fact that the manufacturing process itself can be patented. >As a practical ex
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by kongolongo 4y ago
I think this is only a half-truth. There certainly are examples of academic research being translated into lucrative products by industry (there are even prominent examples in software/systems engineering) but I think that many times t
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by kongolongo 4y ago
I think the author was in a tough position to try and pursue this in the first place because, as they admit, they didn't have a direct background in the topic. That makes it difficult at the onset to look for programs and advisors with
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by kongolongo 4y ago
The other comment didn't give for why a 10m:250k ratio is wrong either though. The argument that the 10m is only enabled by the rest of the company is a reason why it isn't i 1:1. What should the ratio be? Why would it necessarily
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by kongolongo 4y ago
You're right if we eliminated all non-essential use cases it there would be a lot less microplastics, but even in the cases where it's readily replaceable is the extra expenses in all of those product categories worth it over the
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by kongolongo 4y ago
Yep that shear number of possible confounders is why it is so difficult to draw any sort of clear relationships between any particular pollutant and any particular health outcomes. It's not necessarily always conspiracy by corporations
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by kongolongo 4y ago
I think it's kind of a reach to say that nuclear weapons saving lives through the deterrence of MAD can also be included in nuclear power saving lives. I think they can be relatively distinct. For example there have been many instances
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by kongolongo 4y ago
That's just not true. “While 39% of borrowers did not complete a degree, they account for only 23% of debt borrowed” [1] The stats clearly show the vast majority of student loan debt is held by degree holders and disproportionately by

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